Have you ever wanted to ask this question of God?
More often than not, it hasn’t been a deep ‘why God?’.. I can only think of a few instances in my earlier years when I’ve asked the deep ‘why God?’ question: when I was a little girl and I lost my beautiful aunt – she was a teenager. And, as an adult, when I lost my older brother, very unexpectedly.
In the recent weeks, I’ve been asking this question more.
As I’ve scrolled through Facebook and written ‘my deepest condolences on your loss’ or ‘the Lord is close to the broken-hearted and those crushed in spirit’ way too many times to count, especially in the last few months, my mind keeps going back to ‘why God?’.. was it this person’s time?
How do we rationalize when it seems to be happening that it’s so many people’s time at the same time? Even some that seem (to my feeble mind) that could have been preventable.
Right now, my heart is heavy for the losses that so many are enduring. I wish I had an answer to my ‘Why God’ question.
Let us be kind to those we come in contact with, whether in person or on social media. We do not know what great loss that person might be dealing with.
I’m so glad that God does not scoff at me asking these questions.
Dear Heavenly Father, we know that you have promised to comfort our hearts. Even now, I am asking you to send the Great Comforter. Our hearts are aching for our personal losses and for the losses of those around us. I ask that you strengthen us so that we can be a comfort to someone else in need.
